Profile Zinaida Serebriakova

Who is Zinaida Serebriakova? Biography, career, life of the late painter. She has devoted her life to the art of painting and is honored to receive many awards

Profile Zinaida Serebriakova

Who is Zinaida Serebriakova?

Zinaida Serebriakova is a famous female painter from Russia and later in the magnificent country of France. She has devoted her life to the art of painting and is honored with many great awards. In particular, she was also celebrated by Google Doodle for many years of death by leaving the image of the late artist as the interface for this world's leading website.

Zinaida Serebriakova: The late talented artist of the European art scene

Zinaida Serebriakova was born and raised on a estate called Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv in Ukraine), in a family with the foremost artistic tradition in the Russian Empire - the Benois family. The grandfather of Zinaida Serebriakova, Nicholas Benois is a renowned architect and president of the Association of Architects and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, is a famous painter and founder of the art group Mir iskusstva. The painter's father, Yevgeny Nikolayevich Lanceray is a sculptor and her mother is also talented in drawing.

That is understandable why from a young age talented painter Zinaida Serebriakova had an outstanding artistic mindset in her mind. In 1900, she graduated from the girls' gymnastics school (the equivalent of a grammar school or high school), and entered the art school founded by Princess Maria Tenisheva. After that she also spent a lot of time to continue her studies at home and in Paris, France. In 1905, Zinaida Serebriakova married his cousin Boris Serebriakov, a railway engineer, and changed his surname.

Her first works of art, Country Girl (1906) and Orchard in Bloom (1908), affirm her profound awareness of the beauty of the country and people of Russia. The period 1914–1917 was the time when Zinaida Serebriakova was at its peak. During these years, she painted a series of paintings on the subject of Russian rural life, the work of Russian farmers and rural areas, and the most prominent work was Bleaching Cloth (1917).

In 1924, Zinaida Serebriakova had the opportunity to go to Paris - France to make a large mural at the client, but after completing the work she was kept from being sent home. The incident caused the late painter to take his children to France to live with him and later become French naturalized. During these years, she spent time traveling and painting many beautiful landscapes of nature where she came to. These paintings are hung at the 1966 Soviet Exhibition in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev with a warm reception from art lovers. Her picture album has sold millions of copies and has been compared with two great artists Botticelli and Renoir. However, although she submitted about 200 of her works for display in the Soviet Union, most of them are still in France to this day.

Zinaida Serebriakova died in Paris on September 19, 1967, at the age of 82 years old. She was buried in Paris, in a Russian cemetery called Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. Her dedication has been known and appreciated by many generations of art lovers, especially painting.